Crystals

Feeling the heat: New approach to controlling heat flow in crystals

Feeling the heat: a new approach to controlling heat flow in crystals - EurekAlert

The rocky walls of volcanoes are studded with crystals, formed underground in hot magma. By studying how long the crystals take to form, volcanologists are calibrating so-called "crystal clocks" that reveal how long magmas can linger below ground before erupting.

Crystals from radioactive metal actinium

Scientists Have Discovered a New Way to Look Inside Crystals

Clutch-stack-driven molecular gears in crystals could propel material innovation

Water leaking into Earth's core may have birthed a mysterious layer that churns out crystals

First experimental evidence of hopfions in crystals opens up new dimension for future technology

Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

What It Takes to Grow Crystals in Space

Crystals in Apollo Lunar Rocks Reveal the Moon’s True Age

Crystals brought back by astronauts show that the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought | After an ocean of magma cooled down, the lunar crystals formed at least 4.46 billion years ago

JWST Detects Crystals of Quartz in a Strange Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Faster Than Can Be Explained – Photonic Time Crystals Could Revolutionize Optics